'Nasty' Throws In Towel After 2 Rounds

January 21, 1992

ST. CLOUD — Nestor ''Nasty'' Gomez's dream of winning an Olympic boxing title ended Saturday night in less than six minutes.

Gomez, a 24-year-old middleweight from Kissimmee, took several punches to the body and chin before asking the referee to stop the fight in the second round, said Gomez's trainer, Don DeLong of St. Cloud.

''He forgot everything we worked on,'' DeLong said of Gomez's months of training. ''He should never entertain the thought of going pro.''

Gomez couldn't be reached for comment.

The fight was the second round of three days of elimination bouts for Olympic hopefuls held last weekend in Orlando. Gomez made it through the first round when, as the odd man out, he had no one to fight, DeLong said.

Kenny McCullough of Jacksonville won the middleweight division Sunday and will fight this weekend in Aiken, S.C. The winners in South Carolina will fight next month in Colorado Springs. The Olympic boxing team will be picked later this year in Phoenix, DeLong said.